Working with Footnotes
If you’ve been using Word’s tools to automatically place superscripts in your document and text below for your footnotes, you may have found that Word’s pre-set formatting for these notes could stand some improvement. Maybe you would like to make changes to the spacing between lines, the footnote separator lines or the footnote font or maybe you need to get Word to stop spreading longer notes across two pages. The good news is, you can!
- How to Preserve Footnote/Endnote Links when Converting to PDFSome students are interested in the end/footnotes functioning as hyperlinks that, when clicked, take the reader either to the bottom of a page or the end of the document. This document delineates how one can activate this feature.
- Blank space on page above footnotesIf you are using footnotes in your document, you may notice from time to time that the text on a page seems to cut off well above the bottom of the page -- and anything you do to fix it doesn't work! While there is no perfect solution for this, Microsoft MVP Susan S. Barnhill has some suggestions that may help.
